M.Sc./ Ph.D HydroPower Engineering (HPE)

This program focus on the description of low or high head hydropower generation, power economics, dams and reservoirs needed for high head generation, river hydraulics including sedimentation, site selection, and construction and operational management of hydropower facilities. Further information about the study programs or research in water resources at the Centre may be obtained by contacting the Director or the Faculty of the Centre.

Comparison with other energy source, stages of hydropower development, selection criteria and approval, components, low head and high head, low head developments; civil components; hydro-mechanical, components; electromechanical components and auxiliary equipment. Project layout and sizing, low head and high head, interdependence between layout, sizing and economics; alternative project layout, selection of project components; level of detail of quantities and costs in different stages of project development; estimation of quantities and costs and optimization and selection of the plant size. Peaking plants, Risk analysis for public and private sector investments.

River morphology, hydraulics of river flow, river hydrographic survey, river regulation and control. Measurement of river cross-section. River training works, spur, guidelines flood protection works. Effects of river training on flow dynamics. Weir gate regulation and sediment deposition in head ponds. Analysis of river morphology. Stream gauging. Floodway analysis. Application of River Analysis System, HEC-RAS model, Telemetry, River water quality modeling.

Introduction: Definitions, Snow and its classification, Distribution of snow, Ripening of snow, Snowmelt process, Design of network, Measurement of snow at time of fall, Snow surveying, Factors affecting runoff from snowmelt, Techniques of Analysis of snowmelt for Forecasting runoff, Snow compaction, Snow loads, Properties and Structure of Ice. Distribution of Glaciers and Perennial Ice, Movement of glaciers and their impacts. Introduction to avalanches and their classification.